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Online Event Location:  https://actionnetwork.org/events/dsa4usps-the-postal-service-and-the-green-new-deal/ 

DSA4USPS will explore the postal service’s potential within the Green New Deal. With its fleet of carriers who operate on foot, the US postal service is a very green federal agency, and plenty of people are organizing to make it, and its foreign counterparts, even more so.

Join Stephen Quirke, rank-and-file member of the National Association of Letter Carriers and DSA; Julee Sanderson, 1st national VP of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers; David Yao, VP of the Seattle area Postal Workers’ Union; and Gustavo G. from the DSA Green New Deal Campaign committee as they discuss the importance of greening infrastructure writ large, and how postal services specifically can join and forward the cause. This webinar will be moderated by Claire R., a member of New Orleans DSA.

Solidarity to the students occupying People's Park! Press conference tomorrow at noon. https://t.co/2OMfHYAYmZ pic.twitter.com/M74X18Vx88

— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) February 9, 2021

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Join communities of color, youth, immigrants, workers and union members to shape a People’s Climate Justice and Just Recovery Platform for San Francisco.  We need a plan to recover from the pandemic that will transform our city and set an example of what is possible for other cities around the country.

While San Francisco has adopted a series of ambitious climate goals, including all renewable energy by 2030 and net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, we must ensure that these plans serve the needs of our communities.

As global climate chaos meets our local crisis of wealth disparity, the city is slated to release an updated Climate Action Plan in the coming year. Now is an ideal time to push an immigrant, communities of color and worker-led climate justice, just recovery and just transition agenda in San Francisco.

The goals of this gathering are to bring together workers and community members to learn about climate justice and give feedback, so that we can co-create a vision for a Green New Deal in San Francisco. Please bring any and all of your members who want to learn more about climate justice and share ideas about what a just, green, economy can look like!

Conveners include PODER, Jobs with Justice San Francisco, Bayview Advocates, the Public Bank Coalition, United Educators of San Francisco, American Federation of Teachers 2121, SEIU United Services Workers West, SEIU 1021, SOMCAM, SF Rising, IFPTE Local 21, Reclaim Our Power: Utility Justice Campaign, Youth vs. Apocalypse, unions, environmental organizations and allies.

Interpretation is available.

Celebrating the Music and Art of Oakland four “must see events” on Thursdays, February 4, 11, 18, 25 2021 from 11-12pm. Presentations and performances by Street Spirit, Youth Spirit Art Work and others. Hosted by St. Mary’s Center Senior Advocates for Hope and Justice.

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Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/elizabeth-kolbert-mark-hertsgaard-under-a-white-sky-nature-of-future-tickets-131627494379

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Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Sixth Extinction,”  returns to humanity’s transformative impact on our environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it is said we now live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In “Under a White Sky” Kolbert takes a hard look at this new world we are creating. She examines how the sorts of intervention that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation.

“Under a White Sky” takes a clear-eyed look at the new world we are creating. She meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish – one that lives in a tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave Desert. She visits a lava field in Iceland, where engineers are turning carbon emissions to stone; an aquarium in Australia, where researchers are trying to develop “super coral” that can survive on a hotter globe; and a lab at Harvard, where physicists are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere in order to reflect sunlight back to space to cool the earth. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, “Under a White Sky” is a thoroughly original view of the challenges confronting us.

Mark Hertsgaard is an American journalist, author and environmental correspondent for The Nation magazine. Formerly a cultural reporter for the New Yorker, he has written  sevenbooks, including “Bravehearts: Whistle Blowing in the Age of Snowden, and “Hot: Living through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.”

This event features two outstanding environmental authorities discussing the future of our planet.

Video stream: https://t.co/qPu8dz9nae?amp=1

Join us this Friday for a #CuttingEdgeIssues guest lecture with Kate Raworth (@KateRaworth) who will be speaking on “Doughnut Economics: turning a radical idea into irresistible practice”. Stream the lecture on YouTube from 4pm: https://t.co/qPu8dz9nae pic.twitter.com/56bNDMyaVv

— LSE International Development (@LSE_ID) February 8, 2021

The Women of the Black Panther Party Mural Project is teaming up with East Oakland Collective’s Feed the Hood for a Drive Up Food Drive during Black History Month.

Help serve the community by donating shelf stable food, cleaning supplies, and PPE. Load your trunk or back seat with your donations, pull curbside at EOC’s office and a volunteer will safely collect your items.

This is being organized by Yusuf Gürsey with some other possible speakers.

Yusuf writes: “I am Turkish and born in Turkey but now residing in New Haven, CT. I am a member of of the US Peace Council and CPUSA and an associate of Communist Party of Turkey (TKP). I am a retired physicist from Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey but lately I have become an independent researcher in linguistics and history. I am also very knowledgeable about the struggles in other Middle East countries, particularly the Arab World and I am involved in Middle East Solidarity work. I had become first familiar with Left Movements in Turkey through the students of my parents in Middle East Technical University since 1967 when I was in junior high school and that was also the year I became a supporter of the Palestinian cause.

We have invited Ekim Kılıç an officer in the Labour Party (Turkey) of the Kurdish nationality and someone  from the TKP

ICSS Member Mehmet Yazgan will join the discussion.

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Raj Sahai is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

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Green Sunday – Green Party of Alameda County

If we are ever to have a government that actually responds to the needs of the majority of people in this country, we are going to need much more than a change of administration and Congress. We need a fundamental change of consciousness. We also need fundamental and systemic changes to our systems. The values and beliefs on which our country was founded – imperialism, racism, patriarchy, and capitalism – and our current systems are killing us and the life-support system of our planet and undermining our capacity to see each other as embodiments of the sacred and to celebrate the awe and wonder of our universe. We at Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives have an approach to shift consciousness that can significantly contribute to the kind of transformative movement that is so badly needed. I will share how we got here and what progressives can do to help shift the tide.

Beyond promoting short-term fixes, we can and must promote a world based on a New Bottom Line, whereby we measure success by the extent to which we maximize our capacity to care for each other and care for the planet rather than by the extent to which we maximize money and power. In our time together, I will share bold proposals that could create lasting change and a strategy to build the movement we need to enact such change.

Cat Zavis is the Executive Director of the Network of Spiritual Progressives. In that role, she has trained over 600 people in spiritual activism, revolutionary love, and prophetic empathy. She is also a lawyer and mediator and has a master’s degree in Gender and Women’s Studies. She has over 17 years of experience in training, coaching, and mediation focused around empathic communication and has trained thousands of people, including parents, teachers, spiritual/faith communities, collaborative lawyers, mediators, therapists, and others.

(Followed by County Council business meeting at 6:30. All are welcome to attend)

Time: Feb. 14, 2021, 5:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Join us on Sunday, February 14th at 6pm to watch Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer together on Zoom!
Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84443394573
After we watch the film people may stick around to discuss the film together!
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer is about three young women who face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation and the world beyond, three young artists or the society they live in?
Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8K8WRRzbQs

Join Stop the Money Pipeline’s launch event for our rapid response campaign to #DefundLine3. The banks that are funding Line 3 are funding climate destruction –
we’re taking action to stop them.

Find out how you can get involved, from supporting the frontlines to pressuring the financial institutions into dropping Line 3. Check your email for confirmation once you complete your registration.

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